Hellooo!! *Erotic drums as Hao-sama appears half naked*
First of all…
This story is dedicated for those who are fans or at least don't mind with yaoi / shonen-ai / boy x boy / slash / gay. If you're not, please leave right away for your own good. There, I've told ya!
Then let the story begin…
ALWAYS WITH MY SENPAI
chapter 1
by sakura-sleep
"Oh... sou ka."
"What do you mean by 'Oh, sou ka' idiot? THERE'S A LOVE LETTER IN YOUR SHOE BOX!!" Exclaimed a blue haired Ainu hysterically, seeing a pink heart patterned envelope laid neatly beneath Ren's shoes, as he accidentally dropped his skateboard. Still amazed, he took the white skateboard back from the floor. Ren was just going to slap him when the ear-stabbing voice unexpectedly drew the entire room's attentions for some gossipers gathered around Ren in enthusiasm.
"Ehhh?? Ren?? Is there a mistake with my ear?" said a girl.
"From who? Who?"
"So there's actually someone who could fell for you that Tao Ren…."
It was a peaceful after school time at Hiroyuki High, and that afternoon will last as usual as the other days if only the unusual scandal didn't happen. Followed the sudden riot, all whispers and utters drastically silenced when the Chinese gave a deathly glare.
"Re…Ren…" begged HoroHoro for he tried to decrease the tension. His friend Ren was quite hot-tempered and famous for this bad point. The guy always brought a folded Chinese sword, and he was rather alarmed by this. Who would want a Tao Ren to practice an ancient kung fu style to the human beings?
"Okay-okay, dismissed, minna. I think Ren needs a quiet place to perceive the letter with a heart, don't you agree? he-he-he." A slender and lousy figure came through the crowd with a sheepish grin on his face, which is a bit surprising how the others could willingly follow his advice and returned to their previous activities. A small boy beside him stared at him fondly because of that ability, while HoroHoro grinned and Ren threw his face aside.
"Look what have you done, idiot. You really have complex problems with that voice." snapped Ren at the trouble-maker friend, to his relieve he didn't make a fuss by beating those gossipers away.
"Yo!" said the guy that had just came. "So… from who is it, Ren?"
"See? Even Yoh is curious! Let's just take this thing away and read it together somewhere quiet!" advised HoroHoro as he patted Ren's shoulder. The boy looked at him somewhat annoyed.
"Give it to me."
"Huh?"
HoroHoro took the letter from Ren's P.E shoes and handed it to him. The boy received it and tore it into two parts, before threw them nonchalantly to the rubbish bin.
"The problem is solved. Ja, mata ashita."
"EEEEEHHHH???? REN!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!??" HoroHoro's squeal was about to attract everybody's attention again if only Manta didn't say 'Shu-shu' to them. The Chinese didn't care at all and continue walking, leaving the helpless party. Manta could only sigh.
"So poor, whoever the sender is." commented Yoh as soon as the boy disappeared from their sight.
"You're right, Yoh….wait. What would you do with it?" asked Manta when he saw Yoh took the torn letter from the rubbish bin.
"Hey, let me read it too." said HoroHoro.
"Both of you! It's someone else's privacy!"
"No more privacy, Manta. He has discharged it in public place. It's better for us to safe it, who knows that those school keepers will read it later!"
The short boy had no choice but to agree with the blue haired. After some simple discussions, they decided to choose library as the most comfortable and safest place to talk about such phenomena.
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And there they were finally, at the library of Hiroyuki High. A quiet and cool place where four-eyed bunch of guys usually gathered, located at the highest floor of the building. The room was cool, thanks to the AC. A huge hall was separated into two parts; the first was the place where various books were arranged at the shelves. Outside it, the room was even bigger in size, tables and chairs were lined up neatly for it was a place for students to read. There, the boys find a cozy place near the corner. First HoroHoro came and sat down, then Manta followed on his right and Yoh on his left. Both were paying attention to the torn letter.
"Okay. Let me read it." The Ainu slipped a fried nut into his mouth, despise the big poster on the wall that said:
'NO EATING OR DRINKING. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE'.
The other two friends gathered sweetly around him like some children waiting for a mother's fairy tale, or maybe some short of mafias waiting for a new drug dealing's plan, careless about how he had disobeyed the rule.
"Dear Ren-senpai," HoroHoro started to read in a low volume. His voice was trembling in excitement. A smirk appeared on his face.
"WHAT!? Senpai? So she is a kouhai?"
"Manta… your voice…" warned Yoh, but couldn't stop himself from smirking as well.
"Shhh… let me continue. Damn, this is interesting."
So HoroHoro continue.
"Maybe you have forgotten about me, but please forgive me for disturbing you, Ren-senpai. To tell the truth, I've been admiring you since the first time I entered this school. Do you… mind, to be my dearest person? Please meet me today, in front of the school gate at 4 AM, I'm eager to hear your answer. With love, Lyserg Diethel. Room I-6/14."
"Well… it's that simple." said HoroHoro upset. He was hoping for a longer and twisted romantic confession, but the letter was just polite, not much fun for the boys.
The party silenced, sunk in thoughts.
"Who is that Lyserg Diethel anyway?" asked Manta in curiosity.
"I have no idea, though. I hope she's a very pretty girl, so I could replace Ren if he waste her. And I bet he would. HAHAHA!" HoroHoro slipped another fried nut carefully into his mouth, and stole a glimpse at the Library keeper lady who known as a strict and killer woman. The woman didn't seem to notice his act, so HoroHoro continued chewing peacefully.
"Poor one…" Yoh grabbed the letter from HoroHoro's hand and examined it closely. "This is a nice handwriting. Not the beautiful one, but easy to read. What time is it now?"
"15 minutes before 4 AM. Ren-kun is on his way home now. Maybe he manages to get here before the promised time, but what can make him return? Impossible. It's Ren we're talking about. It's risky to trap him that way, after all. Furtherm……. YOH-KUN, ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING…!!??" Protested Manta since his friend was busy with his hand phone rather than to pay him any attention. A death glare from the library lady soon followed afterwards.
"Moshi-moshi? Jun-san? It's Yoh. Ano… actually we need your advice. Err… it's to make Ren return to school, there's a very important business regarding the survival of someone's life….. Yes. Hai. Yeah. Near the gate? Wow… that's a good plan! Sure. Sure! We will tell you later. Eeehh, sankyu, Jun-san! Ja ne!"
Yoh hung up the phone, and smiled happily. "No problem! Just tell him now that Jun-san is here to pick him up since she needs him to accompany her to the market, but found that he has gone. Tell him that she's waiting near the gate. That way, according to Jun-san, he will surely rush here. He-he-he…"
Both HoroHoro and Manta turned pale.
"Yoh-kun…. I don't know that you could be so cunning…"
"Yoh…. you see….I'm not… taking part of that one…" added HoroHoro. "Are you nuts!? We'll be finished!"
"He-he-he. Daijoubu. It'll be alright somehow."
The two were planning to argue some more, too bad the killer library lady had approached and kicked them out of the room for eating, chatting, and even using hand phone without reading any book at all…
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It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. As expected, not so many students were still hanging around in the school that time. Most of them, who still at school, usually stayed at the classes. The orange-ish color of the gentle sunlight started to paint the sky, turned the place into a perfect and romantic setting for shoujo manga. The gate of Hiroyuki High still opened wide, and cool wind blew softly, swaying the trees and bushes around the gate where the three buddies hid themselves, waiting for heart-pounding scenery that soon will come. Too bad there's none of the two main casts had arrived.
"Yoh-kun… are you sure this is okay…? I mean… first we screwed up other people's privacy, and now we watch it!"
"Calm down, Manta." answered HoroHoro. "We're saving a hopeless girl! Ren indeed wouldn't be happy to find out that we're tricking him, and he'll be angry. But Ren is always angry, anyway! Now can you let a poor lady waiting for someone that won't even come, alone? Who knows that she's so desperately falling in love and waiting for Ren until night falls? Somehow we should choose one less bad thing between two bad things, Manta." HoroHoro explained, felt educated after uttering his confusing speech.
"HoroHoro-kun… too much Pylica-chan's shoujo manga had infected your brain…" was Manta's only comment.
"Manta, we're not fooling them. Thus, we're not a bunch of naughty brats who toy with other's people business! Remember, we're not trying to pair them. We help the girl to get a certain answer, whether it's good or bad. Not to serve Ren as her boyfriend! Well… though I don't mind with it either…"
"She comes! That Lyserg Diethel!" warned Yoh finally, after a long expectation.
How shock they were to find out that the one who they've been waiting for is a 'Bokuto no Ryu, super female version walks ferociously towards Tamao' kind of creature. Why Bokuto no Ryu, it's because her sailor moon style hairdo was just as extraordinary as Ryu's, despite that love thirsty expression. Plus, her skirt was too tiny to cover her fatty legs, and her lips were just too thick they almost touched her chin. With a snob way she walked, tossing her extravagant butt left and right, while dressing her face with spotlight make up. In simple word: HORRIBLE
"Curse you, Yoh!! Now it'll be better if Ren get angry, for I think he'll faint in the first place!"
Luckily, the girl walked passed the gate, and didn't stop there at all. Causing the guys to sigh in terrible relieve.
"Fuuhhh…. This is not good for my health. Come on, Lyserg-chan, where are you!!??" mumbled HoroHoro impatiently and continued to chew the fried nuts. The others still staring at the gate intently, waiting for a reality to come, whether it's sweet or bitter. They concentrations were broken when a running figure of Tao Ren appeared near the gate afterwards, looking rather hasty for the news about his lovely onee-san picking him up. There, he stopped and rested his back against the iron bars, searching with his sight for Tao Jun. Not so long after he stood there, a green haired boy run towards him, smiling cheerfully.
"Gaaaahhh, who's that guy anyway?" HoroHoro scratched his spiky hair.
"Ah, I know him! He's a 1st grader. If I'm not mistaken he's from class I-6, near my class. He's very polite towards the senpais, and often attracts my friends due to his cuteness and smily face. But I never know his name." explained Manta, as he saw the boy talked to Ren.
"Really? I suppose to know all cuteness on earth, why haven't I heard about him earlier?"
"Umm… I think he's not that popular. He doesn't have friends that much, since I often see him alone… maybe."
"Sou ka? But what business he has with Ren? He really is disturbing."
"I don't know, I wonder where that Lyserg Diethel is."
"Damn, she must be awkward to approach Ren since the guy was there."
"Poor girl, maybe it's not her fate to confess her love today…"
"Guys, their conversation are over." Yoh's line surprised them.
HoroHoro and Manta stopped their pointless chat and turned their attention at Ren and the mysterious guy, just to find that they have ended their conversation. The last thing they could observe was just that the green haired boy bowed at Ren, and the Chinese guy left him coldly without saying a thing. Manta frowned.
"Ren left?"
"What did they say, Yoh?" asked HoroHoro as soon as he realized that he and Manta had been ignoring Yoh and sunk in their gossip for quite some time.
"Well… I can't hear them. Do you think we can hear their conversation in this distance while they can't hear ours since the beginning?" he smiled sheepishly, and let a 'he-he-he' giggle out.
They both stunned, and just realized how stupid they were for they indeed was truly chatting, not whispering. The fact that they didn't need to lower their volumes to speak was enough to prove that THEY WERE JUST TOO FAR from the estimated location.
"YOOOOOHHHHH!!!!" Again, HoroHoro's hardcore voice was loud enough to make everybody stare at them weirdly, but still it seemed that the mysterious guy didn't hear it. He stood still there like a store mannequin for quite a long time, while the three watched at him tensely from far away and could only able to see his back. Finally, he left without giving a chance for Yoh and gangs to see his face, and walked to the different direction with Ren.
"YOOOHHHH!!!!" The Ainu repeated his scream near Yoh's poor ears and clutched his collar peevishly. "If you've noticed our mistake before, then why don't you at least told us!!?? You're always like that!! Luckily Lyserg-chan hasn't come. Let's choose a better place to hide right away! Duh…."
"But it's so cozy here! I like this place, by the way. He-he-he!!"
"Yoh-kuuunnnn~~~~" Manta couldn't held his tears. "Do you even remember about our true intention of being here…..??"
"To…. help a girl named Lyserg Diethel?"
"Yes, my dear Yoh-kun, for god shakes!!"
"Ano… Manta?"
"Yes, my dear Yoh-kun, uhuuuhuuuuu….."
"Actually I've wanted to ask this since the first time we read the letter."
"Say it...."
"Do you think that 'Lyserg Diethel' is a girl's name?"
"eh…………………………….??"
Now that Yoh's simple question had made a fried nut popped out from HoroHoro's stomach and pocked the eyes of Manta , not to mention how their jaws froze in the most desperate position to realize something that supposed to be noticeable from the start.
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(Tao's residence)
REN'S POV
"Tadaima."
I greet her as nice as I can, but I think it doesn't look like that. Honestly, she's the only person in the world whom I wanted to be happy, though it seems I could never be the one to make her feel so. It's a complicated emotion. I was so worried and happy at the same time when Yoh said that she was waiting for me at school, but now that I'm facing her, I can't even pull my lips to form a smile. Damn.
"Ah…Ren!! Where were you! I've just returned from your school…" answered her. She turns off the soap opera she was watching before and comes to me. "Do you go somewhere with friends? Why you have just arrived?"
I can't tell it, but something smells fishy. I'm feeling annoyed of something I don't know. Can't it be…. because of the 1st grader boy from before?
"Aren't you the one who arrive too soon? You don't use dad's plane to visit my school, do you?" I interrogated her rather carefully. It's my right to be paranoid.
"Actually…." She looked rather clueless. That's right, so there's indeed something. "I… asked Pai Long to drive me."
"Oh? And what business did you have with me if you already with your boyfriend, then?"
"Ren…!! How cruel!!! I just want my lovely little brother and me to go somewhere together…. you've been too busy lately. I just…. feel a little lonely. "
There, she is. I just couldn't reply to such kind of face. So I just snort and proceed to the stair.
"Ren!"
'Okay, okay. We'll go… some other time. Mattaku."
She laughs happily towards my answer, and I feel being toyed.
"Well, that's good. But you don't look too happy right now, do you? Is there something…. bothering you? Maybe we could talk about it?" Good. And she can tell it instantly.
"I'm tired. I want to sleep."
"Oh, OK then." She gives up finally and returns to her seat where she watched soap opera before. I walked away, straight to my room. I just want to forget these whole damn things and have a good dream.
***flash back***
"Ah!! Ren-senpai!!"
I was around searching for my sister when that 1st grader approached me rather hastily. His face was suspiciously red and I thought he was one of those kouhais who came to me bugging about some crappy mathematic subjects, so I almost kick him away. But that smile was just too cheerful and innocent, made me feel a bit pity.
"I can't believe you're here! So you've read my letter!"
Okay. I was busy and he came talking about insignificant thing I didn't even understand. Honestly I forgot about the letter I had torn in two the morning before. Well… even if I did remember, it wouldn't give that much difference.
"What letter? Who the hell are you anyway?"
He looked confuse towards my respond, but seems he didn't like wasting time to explain about it further. Quickly he regained a hopeful face and inhaled, then spoke.
"I'm Lyserg Diethel from class I-6! Ren-senpai, I've been admiring you for a long time!"
"…and?"
"And… and… do you mind to be my boyfriend?" His voice was loud, but just couldn't hide the nervousness inside it. I wonder how could God created this kind of straightforward people when I'm not one of them.
"Yes, I do. So you better look for another person." He looked a bit shock. Duh, I'm not an expert in making twisted answers of false comfort that won't even solve the problem! And above all…
"Is there… someone that you love?"
"…Yes."
"A… girl?"
"That's none of your business."
He bowed deep politely; I know he was smiling though I didn't care what kind of smile it turned to be. "Thank you for the answer, Ren-senpai! But… may I still place a hope on you?"
"You better don't. It'll only bother me." I turned myself to leave and heard a small 'I understand' from that persistent kid, but maybe my ears were bad.
***end of flash back***
That's it. To forget this afternoon is the best way out for him. I don't want a stranger to come into my life when my mind is already desperately full of one person. One person that doesn't even notice my feeling and never will, cause it's my fault. I can't even smile to him, talk nice to him, nonetheless to declare such bullshit of 'admiring' like that 1st grader boy. One person that would always seems like clouds. Can bee seen but too beautiful to be caught.
"Ren!! Wake up!!" My sister's calling me. Gosh, can't she give me some time to rest!? I cover my face with a pillow, pretend not to hear her. But she insisted.
"I'M SLEEPING!!"
"Just a moment, Sweetheart. There's a phone call from a friend of yours."
I have no choice but to open the door and snatch the wireless phone she offers. I glare at her for calling me like that but she only smiles teasingly and leave.
"Moshi moshi!?"
"Uh.. hello? Ren?"
Yo…Yoh!! Wh-what!?"
Damn. I'll kill Jun-neesan right after this.
"He-he-he."
"What's that…!?"
"Ren….'Sweetheart'. He-he-he."
HELL NO!!
"Hurry up finish your business, Yoh. What do you want?"
"Oh well… I want to ask about Ly…. eh? no? but….. oh. OK. ….EHH??"
I don't understand. What does he want exactly? "Yoh, are you okay? Hurry up."
"Ren, where were you this afternoon?"
And why suddenly all people I know are paying attention to this afternoon.
"If you want to say about my sister picked me up, you've already told me before, and thank you for that."
"No, actually it's not that. It's about Ly… eh? no? Ok. But…"
"Yoh, speak clearly!"
"No…I… I was just looking for you!"
eh?
"What happe-" I stop my line since I hear a rush of people whispering near him, then there's a short moment of silence. Wait… I hear several people's gasps too.
"Hello, Tao Ren. Long time no see."
DAMN! And why from the entire Yoh's close people, this bastard is the one who appears out of nowhere!?
"Hm. Your interruption here is a bit needless, Asakura Hao."
"Needless but worth waited for. And this Hao-sama is here to state an important business so you better listen, little one."
"So state your business, immediately, since I can no longer resist your existence over the line."
"Sure. What happened with Lyserg Diethel today?"
I hear some harmonic gasps. It seems there's a ruckus there. Well, not my care anyway.
"Lyserg who?" Who's he?"
"He, according to the fact, is a big eyes cutie of 1st grader whom I saw talking with you at about 4 o'clock."
"First, why should I care about some… cutie, as you say. Second, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ASKING ME??"
"No offense, paranoid. Is it wrong for me to ask the person whom I saw with him for the last time, since I'm searching for him? For you're cheaper than police officers."
"Not so ever. And to search for him so eagerly shows that you're his…?"
"Childhood friend."
"I see. Unfortunately I had told your childhood friend to leave, so I don't know what happened after that."
"Ah. That's so nice of you, Sweetheart."
"I'm glad you understand….for your own good."
I hung up the phone. Who would have guessed that that Lyserg something is Hao's buddy? What an anomic coincidence. Now I feel content for it's like confronting him. Heh. Hell that bastard. Asakura Hao, the superstar of all being's worships and admires that's no different with a pimp in my eyes. Those who messed with him were rarely breath, according to some experiences. And the worst reality in my whole life is to accept that he's Yoh's twin. Gosh, I'm tired. But there's a good point that he took over the phone. If he didn't, maybe I would have been….. speechless.
END OF POV
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"HAO!!! Are you crazy!!?? Why did you do that? 'Childhood friend'? Childhood friend my ass! You hear the story only about 10 minutes ago! You don't even know which the hell Lyserg Diethel is!!" A spiky haired boy accused tensely, as the accused one only ran his fingers trough strands of long hair in the most graceful and relax position. Four people were on the room, precisely at one bedroom of Asakura's residence. A phone was lying weakly on the floor, surrounded by them as if it was the guilty one.
"Why did you do that, Hao? You're not part of the scenario!" added Manta. "We're not even sure that the boy is Lyserg Diethel, now we…"
"Now we can be sure that he is undoubtedly Lyserg, right? Thanks to me." said the practical boy, unreasonably pulled Yoh's left arm and cuddled it like a spoiled little girl. "Look at your friends, Yoh. I'm trying to help and look what I get in return!" He pouted.
"Calm down, Manta, it's a good thing Hao took over the conversation, since I myself didn't know what to say…"
"Yes, you're so clueless, silly and stupid that time, that's why I helped you Yoh. Am I bad?"
"No, Hao, thank you." Yoh smiled in sincerity and made the other more furious. Since they knew that Hao was posing a victory inside.
"Gosh, now we've made Ren suspicious! You're just too reckless! Think about what we should do after this, Hao!" charged the Ainu emotionally.
"Yoh-kun, I've told you we shouldn't have given the details to Hao…" added Manta.
"Why? Isn't it better…"
"Listen." Cut Hao. "You, BoroBoro, if you have a time to judge this Hao-sama, then go somewhere quiet to meditate or something to rehabilitate your voice. And you, dwarf, go back to the place where you belong, the mines and caves beneath the mountain. Oh, and come back when you've obtained height."
"WHAAAAAAAAAATTT!!!???"
"Hao! That's too much…!!"
"Oh? So you defend them more than me, Yoh?"
"No, no, that's not it…"
"Then?"
"Your words are insulting HoroHoro and Manta…you should apologize."
'Okay". Hao faked a regretful face, and with a very sweet voice he said, 'Guys… I'm so sorry….'
Manta and HoroHoro held their throat for not vomited.
"Hao- niisan…" And this Yoh was truly touched with the theatrical scene, yet his friends could expect nothing from him for he just adores his brother too much.
"Come on, my dear otouto, just be a good boy and do what I say. As a safety step, you and I will go to class I-6 tomorrow, introduce ourselves. He'll know us, we'll know him, problem solved. It's just that simple. We'll recruit Opacho too as an entertainment. Cutie loves doll, as experiences told. Oh I'm genius."
The poor three jaws dropped in the clutch of strategy and words abuse master. HoroHoro grinned his teeth in disgruntled, while Manta could only goose bumped when Yoh replied, "Wow… you're the best! Thank you Hao! By the way…which of your voodoo dolls is Opacho?"
~~~~~~~TBC~~~~~~~
Ok, this is not quite an interesting chapter for romance. I want to write more for this chapter but I save it for the next update, by the way. Thank you for reading!! Please R&R, ne!! You'll make a happy day for me!
Soundtracks along this chapter: ^^ (Music makes inspiration and better empathizes. YEAH BABY.):
- Judy And Mary's
- Laruku's
- Wi-inds's
- Stars to shine again (SPEED)